Improvement in dice-boxes



L'WEDESWEIL'ER.

DICE-BOX.

Patented Feb. ZO,18'7T.

N PETERS. PHOTO LITHOGRAPHEFL WASHINGTON D. O.

Umrnn STATES JACOB WEDESWEILER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO MICHAEL SGHMI'IZ, OF SAME PLACE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 187,686, dated February 20, 1877 application filed December 1, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known .that I, J AOOB WEnEswEILEa, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a true and accurate description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, being part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an apparatus in which any number of dice inclosed under a glass cylinder are thrown without handling, by means of a spring operated by a camshaft from a small wheel or button to be turned bythe operator.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a cross-section, of my apparatus. f

A is a glass cylinder, open at the bottom and closed on the top. Around the bottom end of said cylinder a metallic ring, a, is secured, which, by a hinge, a, is connected to a hollow metal foot-piece, B, and is locked in an upright position bya spring-catch, a, secured to the foot-piece B, opposite to the hinge on, Across the inside of said footpiece are secured two cross-bars, b and b, through holesin the center of which passes a round vertical stem, (1, with a head at its bottom end, having secured to its top end a round plate, D, covered with velvet, upon which the dice E are placed.

Said stem 0 is supported upon near one end of a leaf-spring, F, the other end of which is side, where a small wheel or button, 9, is atcached, by which it may be turned. This shaft G, at a point in the line with the leaf-spring F, has a wire, it, secured through it, both ends projecting at equal distance from the shaft, forming a double cam, which, in rotating said shaft, will alternately depress the spring F, when the stem 0 and table D will drop with it, and when the wire h will release its hold on the spring, the same will throw the table D upward so far, until the head on the bottom end of the stem butts againstthe cross-bar 1), thereby shooting the dice resting upon said table up against the convex top of the glass cylinder A, where they will turn and fall back upon the table.

-- What I claim as my invention is- The combination, with a glass cylinder, A, hinged to a foot-piece, B, of a plate, D, secured to a stem, 0, a spring, F, and cam-bars h on shaft G, substantially as described and shown.

JACOB WEDESWEILER.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Locrz, GEO. FROMMANN. 

